Supreme Court Cases

Prohibited devotional Bible reading in public schools by virtue of establishment clause and 14th Amendments due process clause.

Abbington v. Schempp

Struck down a federal ban on virtual child poroography

Ashcroft v. ACLU

Which Supreme Court case held that the reapportionment of state legislative districts is not a "political question", making it possible for federal courts to intervene in and to decide redistricting cases? "One man, one vote"

Baker v. Carr

Which Supreme Court case held that state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students were unconstitutional? (Judicial Activism)

Brown v. Board of Education

Which Supreme Court case held that people of African descent who were brought to the U.S. and held as slaves (and their descendents) were not U.S. citizens and were not protected by the Constitution?

Dred Scott v. Sandford

Which Supreme Court case held that it is unconstitutional for state officials to write an official school prayer and to encourage students to recite it? (Prohibited state-sponsored recitation in public schools by virtue of the 1st Amendment establishment clause and the 14th Amendment due process clause.

Engel v. Vitale

Which Supreme Court case held that the Commerce Clause grants Congress the power to regulate interstate commerce?

Gibbons v. Ogden

Which Supreme Court case held that state courts are required by the Fourteenth Amendment to provide counsel to defendents in criminal cases, extending this Sixth Amendment requirement on the federal government to the states?

Gideon v. Wainwright

Which Supreme Court case held that a narrowly tailored use of race in student admission decisions is permissible in order to obtain the educational benefits that flow from a diverse student body? (Allowed the use of race as a general factor in law school admissions at the University of Michigan)

Grutter v. Bollinger

Which Supreme Court case held that Executive Order 9066, which ordered Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War II, was Constitutional?

Korematsu v. United States

Using the right of privacy, struck down Texas law banning sodomy

Lawrence v. Texas

Which Supreme Court case struck down state funding for religious schools?

Lemon v. Kurtzman

Which Supreme Court case established that evidence obtained by unreasonable searches and seizures, in violation of the Fourth Amendment, may not be used in state courts for state law criminal prosecutions?

Mapp v. Ohio

Which Supreme Court case established the basis for the exercise of judicial review under Article III of the Constitution?

Marbury v. Madison

Which Supreme Court case established that the Constitution grants implied powers to Congress which can be used to implement the Constitutions's express powers? "The power to tax is the power to destroy"

McCulloch v. Maryland

Which Supreme Court case established that police must advise criminal suspects of their Constitutional rights before questioning them?

Miranda v. Arizona

Which Supreme Court case established that a public official suing for defamation must prove that the statement was made with "actual malice"?

New York Times v. Sullivan

Which Supreme Court case upheld state laws requiring racial segregation at public facilities under the "separate but equal" doctrine?

Plessy v. Ferguson

Which Supreme Court case held that race based quota systems in education violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution? (Declared strict quotes unconstitutional but states may allow race to be taken into account as ONE factor in admissions decisions.)

Regents of the University of California v. Bakke

Which Supreme Court case held that state laws criminalizing abortion violate a right to privacy that is implied by the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment? (Established national abortion guidelines)

Roe v. Wade

Which Supreme court case reaffirmed that obscene material is not protected by the First Amendment and also redefined the Constitutional test for determining what constitutes obscene material? "Obscenity is not within the area of constitutionally protected speech or press"

Roth v. United States

Name the 9 current Supreme Court Justices

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Elena Kagan Sonia Sotomayor Clarence Thomas Samuel Alito Anthony Kennedy Neil Gorsuch John Roberts Stephen Breger

Which Supreme Court case held that the First Amendment right to free speech doesn't protect speech that presents a "clear and present danger"? (Limits freedom of speech during wartime)

Schenck v. United States

Which Supreme Court case held that the act of burning a flag is protected speech under the First Amendment?

Texas v. Johnson

Which Supreme Court case defined the constitutional rights of public school students? "Allowed individual schools to prohibit students from protesting if the protest has the chance to influence a disruptive response"

Tinker v. Des Moines Independent School District

Which Supreme Court case held that the President cannot use executive privlege to withhold evidence that is relevant in a criminal trial? "Even the President is not above the law"

United States v. Nixon